It depends solely upon your goals: For training, use a shortbow, as they fire more often. If you need distance, use a longbow, as they are able to go over a farther distance.
maple longbow sighted has a +110 and the gravite short has i think +47. If you want more accuracy choose the longbow sighted, but if you want faster speed choose the gravite shortbow. keep in mind that the longbow sight costs 10k tokens while the gravite shortbow costs 40k tokens and the gravite shortbow you have to keep repairing it, from 0% to 100% charged it costs 1 million GP. The longbow sight doesnt need repairing you buy it once and it's yours unless you lose it, you will have to buy a new one.
rune crossbow is a good crossbow. and dark bow is the best longbow.
Really? A Longbow is a Bow that is at least as tall as you are A Shortbow is not
Usually a magic longbow. But it depends on what you'd rather have. Shortbows are my accurate while longbows are more stronger. So it based on whether you'd hit more or hit stronger.
A longbow should be the height of the archer himself.
To use arrows, you need the arrows, and a bow. There is longbow or shortbow - also, there are several varieties of each. Start with a standard shortbow (shoots faster) or longbow (longer range); other bows require a certain level in ranging. Click on the bow to wield it. Click on the arrows to put them in your quiver (they, too, will appear in worn equipment). Then, just click on any monster to start shooting at it. About 1/5 of your arrows will be lost; the remaining arrows, you can pick up and use again.
An oak longbow has a further range distance and a higher ranged bonus allowing for higher hits and more safespots, an oak shortbow hits faster allowing for much faster training. Shortbows are usually recommended due to their faster speed and only having slightly less power than a longbow, except in some circumstances where longer range is needed for safe-spotting than a longbow is recommended.
For cutting it off a tree: 37.5 Woodcutting XP For making a fire with a tinderbox: 60 Firemaking XP For making it into a shortbow: 16.5 Fletching XP For making it into a longbow: 25 Fletching XP
If by Gravity Shortbow you mean the Gravite Shortbow, it's a reward bought from the Reward trader for 40,000 Dungeoneering tokens outside of Dungeoneering. It can't be brought into the dungeons and isn't an item in the dungeons.
A longbow is a type of bow that is tall (roughly equal to the height of the person who uses it); this will allow its user a fairly long draw, at least to the jaw (the average length of the Mary Rose arrowshafts is 75 cm/30 in).
There is actually no real difference between a "longbow" and a "bow", since a longbow is simply a type of bow. There are many types of bows, as used in archery, and each type includes various sub-types: Longbow; Recurved; Flatbow; Shortbow; Reflex/Deflex; Compound; Crossbow; etc. While some people believe that a longbow must be made for the specific height of the particular person who will be using it, the only things that makes a bow a "longbow" are that it is normally (but not always) longer in length (nock to nock) than a recurved bow of a comparable draw-weight; the limbs are normally not very wide when compared to a flatbow of comparable draw-weight; and that when "braced" (when the string is installed on the bow) the string does not touch any part of the bow except at the nocks (the grooves the string sits in at the very ends of the bow's limbs). A "longbow" does not have to be six feet long to be usable by a person who is 6 feet tall. In fact, a "longbow" can technically be almost any length, so long as it meets the above three requirements. The Samick "Raider" Longbow is an example of a longbow that is "short" in length (it is only 60-inches in length), and when un-braced it resembles a recurved bow, due to its Reflex/Deflex design. But when braced, the string touches only the nocks, which makes the bow a Longbow.